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...charge-and divining that the play will go the opposite way. It can also be pretty cute. "When an offensive guard comes up to the line," says Tackle Ray Jacobs of the American Football League's Miami Dolphins, "I watch the way he sets himself. Some guys lean back on their haunches, which means that they're either going to pull for a run or go back for a pass protection." Tackle Alex Karras of the N.F.L.'s Detroit Lions examines opponents' knuckles. If the knuckles are white, they intend to block forward and the play...
...drawings for his own books conveyed an inimitably whimsical presence of animals and the funny little man who could talk to them. In this musical movie, Dr. Dolittle's character, as well as his physiognomy, has gone astray. The pleasingly plump physician has been transformed into a lean, saturnine ectomorph (Rex Harrison) who treats his furred and feathered charges with all the intimacy of a Harley Street internist ordering a set of X rays. Surrounding him, however, is a brilliant supporting cast: pigs, dogs, giraffes, elephants, hippos, and a multilingual parrot...
...Europeans find Americans efficiently cold, Americans for their part often find Europeans dismayingly disorganized. Says ITT Executive Vice President Tim Dunleavy: "To counteract the long, lean, hungry guys coming in, a European company tries to merge with another European company. But that only adds to the difficulty. You get two overstaffed, overweight companies getting together, and you're making the problem twice as serious as it was in the first place. That sort of action makes them more prey than ever to American companies, but a lot of businessmen and politicians still don't recognize this...
...Lincoln asked: "Suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had to put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across Niagara. Would you shake the cable, or-keep shouting at him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter - Blondin, stoop a little more - lean a little more to the north - lean a little more to the south'? No, you would hold your breath as well as your tongue and keep your hands off until he was safe over...
Actually, Harvard professors have not been significantly affected by this "lean" period. The tightening of government funds has primarily affected those colleges and universities where science professors actually receive part of their salaries from federal grants. At Harvard, no tenured professor receives any academic-year salary money from the government. But Harvard is an exception...